I recently recieved a copy of Ravi Zacharias's book Beyond Opinion (Living the Faith we Defend). Many people had recommended this book to me but i must say i didnt expect what i got.

Now i admire and love Ravi's work but some of it is just so over my head. A lot of Apologetics seems like a big hefty clpud full of information to many people and i felt the same way for a while. This read took me longer than i usual book because i wanted to soak in what was being said.

By far the best chapter of the book was Existential Challenges of Evil and Suffering. I had recently been asking the Lord about the constant battle between heaven and hell and the pull of the enemy on all of humanity here on earth. I had been walking through understanding what it means to be a child of God and focusing more on the facet of God that is a Father. If anything, people should by this book simply for the insight Ravi so eloquently gives on the fall of man, the entering of evil, and understanding Gods heart in the midst of a fallen world.

An excerpt for your liking: "In fact one of the most forgotten realities emerges from thr Scriptures. Jesusstruggled with the burden of having to be separated from his Father in that momentary event of his crucifixtion, as he bore the brunt of evil....The incredible truth was that at the very moment his Father seemed farthest from him, jesus was in the center of his Father's will. That is precisely what an understanding of the cross means. Only when one comes to the cross and sees both in it and beyond it can evil be put in persepective". (Chapter 9)

While parts of me are confused or even slightly disagree with parts of this book, it would be a great start to an Apologetcis lecture.